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When did the switch from activism to grifters occur?

• hnusersarelame 4y ago
• Lammy 4y ago
  IMO a “switch” from one to the other is the wrong way to look at it. There are plenty of people who legitimately care about the environment for the environment’s sake, like myself and probably anybody else on this website. What you should be looking for are the secondary and tertiary effects of climate legislation with a mind toward ideologies besides your own which would benefit from those effects. As always, correlation is not causation, but check out the inflection point for environmental interest among “American English” publications at the time of the first civil rights act in 1964: https://i.imgur.com/kP8ugvH.png https://i.imgur.com/kP8ugvH.png Since we’ve been picking on California in this thread this is also a good time to remember 1964 as the year California passed a state ballot proposition with the explicit intent of nullifying a state-level fair housing act passed one year earlier in 1963: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_California_Proposition_14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_California_Proposition_14 Obviously California is a huge state with a huge number of conflicting ideologies, but I think it’s important to be mindful of ways one’s good intentions may be misdirected and misused.